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Schuyler M. Moore is a partner in the corporate entertainment department of Stroock, practicing entertainment, corporate, and tax law. Moore has been practicing in the entertainment industry since 1981, and represents a broad spectrum of clients throughout the entertainment industry, including producers, sales agents, foreign distributors, and financiers, and has handled some of the largest financing transactions in Hollywood.
Mr. Moore has been a mainstay on Hollywood Reporter's "Power Lawyers" list of the top 100 entertainment lawyers in the country, having been honored multiple times over the past few years. He has also been recognized as one of the top 100 lawyers in California by the Daily Journal and named one of the National Law Journal's "Most Influential Lawyers." Additionally, he has been consistently listed as one of the top 25 entertainment lawyers by Variety.
Representative Matters
Mr. Moore has represented: - Exclusive Media in connection with $100 million of film production financing.
- Toho-Towa, Kadokawa, and Lotte on their investment in Hemisphere, a $250 million slate financing transaction for large budget studio films including Tin Tin, Men in Black III and Smurfs.
- Tele-Muenchen in connection with a number of studio output deals.
- Reliance on its funding of DreamWorks in a $850 million transaction.
- Hyde Park Entertainment on its $100 million financing transaction with ImageNation.
- Cyrte on its acquisitions of Spitfire and Newmarket.
- Aramid Entertainment on over $200 million of film financing transactions.
- Morgan Freeman on investments in high-tech companies, including ClickStar (a VOD company) and Digiboo (a digital kiosk company).
- Summit Entertainment on a transaction that converted it from foreign sales agent into a domestic distributor with over $500 million of financing.
- UTV on its investments in a number of studio films.
- Producers of Goal!, a $100 million trilogy of soccer films financed by a novel approach of equity investment from advertisers (in this case, Adidas).
- A video company on a $65 million loan from an investment bank that is structured as a “true sale” to a bankruptcy remote special purpose vehicle.
- An independent film production company in connection with a $100 million production line of credit (with equity elements) from a large equity fund.
- A large private equity fund in connection with its purchase of several video companies.
Honors and Awards
- Listed as one of the top 100 California lawyers by the Daily Journal
- Listed as one of the top 100 entertainment lawyers by The Hollywood Reporter
- Named one of The National Law Journal’s Most Influential Lawyers
- Listed as one of the top 25 entertainment lawyers by Variety
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| California, 1981 |
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| J.D., UCLA School of Law, 1981; Order of the Coif |
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| B.A., summa cum laude, University of California - Los Angeles, 1978; Phi Beta Kappa |
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